Einstein et al. (2005) predicted no cost to an ongoing task when a prospective memory task met certain criteria. Smith, Hunt, McVay, and McConnell (2007) used prospective memory tasks that met these criteria and found a cost to the ongoing task, contrary to Einstein et al.'s prediction. Einstein and McDaniel (2010) correctly noted that there are…

In a contextual cuing paradigm, we examined how memory for the spatial structure of a natural scene guides visual search. Participants searched through arrays of objects that were embedded within depictions of real-world scenes. If a repeated search array was associated with a single scene during study, then array repetition produced significant…

Neuropsychologists have demonstrated the effect music has on the human brain, and that a peak "musical memory age" occurs around 14, when normal bodily maturation is in progress. A group of 114 college students between the ages of 19 and 25 was exposed to short clips of the top 20 songs from each of the 11 years during their youth;…

Improvements in motor sequence performance have been observed after a delay involving sleep. This finding has been taken as evidence for an active sleep consolidation process that enhances subsequent performance. In a review of this literature, however, the authors observed 4 aspects of data analyses and experimental design that could lead to…

The present experiemnt is an attempt to further clarify the relationship between rehearsal and retention. (Author)

In a part/whole free-recall paradigm, whole-list learning was examined as a function of the degree of part-list organization and the extent to which it was maintained. (Author)

This paper is concerned with word-recognition processes when the recognition test includes associates of the to-be-remembered words presented earlier. (Author)

The present experiment was designed to investigate recognition memory processes in a task in which the items to be recognized were stored in long-term memory (LTM), in short-term memory (STM), or in both memory stores. (Author/RK)

There has been considerable debate in recent years about the status of "imagery" in problem solving. The present experiment attempts to show that while subjects may employ representational strategies when they first encounter a class of problems, they abandon such strategies as they gain experience with the problems. (Editor)

The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that organization in rehearsal is a necessary condition for organization in recall; that is, if recall is organized, then rehearsal must have been organized. (Author)

The present study examined current hypotheses concerning information transfer from short-term memory (STM) to long-term memory (LTM) using a Peterson STM task with word triplets presented over retention intervals of 0, 3, 6, 9, and 18 sec. (Editor)

The present studies explored the effects of several variables upon subjects' ability to combine and organize information from different sentences as well as their ability to retain that information. (Author/RK)

This study investigates the influence on recognition memory of the perceptual organization of the learning material both at the time it is studied and when it is tested. (Author)

The effects of list-item cuing under conditions of extensive free-recall learning were examined within a retroactive inhibition paradigm. (Editor)

The present study was conducted using two measures, reaction time and recognition, to assess the effects of pronounceability on encoding real words and nonwords. (Author/RK)